Gardner 6LYTi Rebuild in Mallorca

We were asked to visit a yacht in Mallorca and given reports that there had been a main engine failure. The engines installed were a pair of Gardner 6LYTi engines, the LG400 series, some of the last engines produced by the Gardner factory and certainly the last engines designed. There had been some work done to the starboard engine shortly…

Gardner History

Lawrence Gardner, son of Thomas and Jane Gardner was born in Liverpool in 1840. He was the second child in a family of three boys and two girls. In the 1841 census returns his father is listed as being a "labourer", although other sources refer to him as a miller. Thomas died when Lawrence was still young in the late 1840's.